Sacramento daily record-union., 1887-08-13
TEHAMA COUNTY.
Something of its Topography-Exte
Resources and Grand Prospects.

Something of its Topography-Extende
Resources and Grand Prospects.
Northern California is composed of the
Sierra Nevada mountains on the east, one
hundred miles from base to base, the Coast
range on the west, with an average width
of seyenty-fve miles, and the broad Sacra-
mento valley lying between. At the head
Of this open and fertile valley is Tehama
county. 1t has a length, from east to west,
of eighty miles, and width, from north to
south, of forty miles. Its area is about g.
POO square miles, or 100000 acres.
TYPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES.
1t has almost every typographical feature
Its western portion occupies the eastern
half of the Coast range with its rounded
domes and sloping hillsides, and the east
ern portion embraces the Sierra Nevadas
to their crest, rising to an elevation of
5000 feet, with their lofty peaks just miss
ing the crown of everlasting snow This
mountain portion has its pinnacled peaks,
its dark canyons and deep gorges, through
which clear streams dash and whirl into
mountain basin, in which are set deep,
clear lakes, which mirror all their sur
roundings-long, narrow valleys, divided
by crystal streams, belts of forest so dense
as to shade the earth, and long, sloping
uplands The central portion of the county
takes in the whole width of the Sacramento
valley, and the foothills of the two ranges.
This valley is one of the most beautiful
in the world. 1t is the second in size and
the first in fertility and development on
the Pacific coast. 1t is
COVERED WITH SCATTERED OAK GRowTHs
In most places, and will look beautiful to
the Eastern home-seeker, in contrast to the
treeless prairies and plains east of the
Sierras. The Spanish settlers located
mostly in the southern portion of the
State az that was the first they came TO
from Mexico but the gold-seekers, our
people of the north settled mostly in the
Sacramento valley, thinking IL the best
country they had ever seen in all their
wanderings, and it is safe to say that after
a residence here of a third of century.
and after many returns TO the old homes
in the Eastern States, they are firmer in
the belief that this valley is the fairest
that it has more sunlight; is arched by
bluer skies, and is the best place to live
and die in that there is under the sum-
Many are the people who came here in
their youth, when hope burns strong and
high, when everything in the future
wears brighter and roseate hues, and as
they lived here, the old scenes of childhood
were painted by memory in brighter and
brighter colors through the years, until
they were all bathed in the golden sun
light and soft haze of our Indian summer
The picture became so charming that at
last they had to go back, as they thought
to stay, but year or two at most found
them again in this broad valley, under the
shadows Of the great mountains on either
hand. There is so much that is beautiful
in the valley, with It's parks of wide
branching oaks, hung with curtains of
clinging vines so much that is grand in
the great mountains around, and SO much
that is generous in the prolific soil and in
the climate, free from winter, that il re-